{"product_id":"where-are-you-really-from-stories-9780593298381","title":"Where Are You Really from: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Delicious, confessional, shocking, and poignant--it's impossible to put this masterful book down.\" --Alissa Nutting, author of \u003ci\u003eMade for Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTampa\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Chou is the rare writer who can serve up dark truths with equal helpings of humor and heart.\" --Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of \u003ci\u003ePizza Girl\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDisorientation\u003c\/i\u003e, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer's affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative, \u003ci\u003eWhere Are You Really From\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593298381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2025 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Elaine Hsieh Chou","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51258292207797,"sku":"9780593298381","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f5fe3414-1110-4fe9-9d91-6ca9d2dc9f3e.jpg?v=1750814741","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/where-are-you-really-from-stories-9780593298381","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}